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Monster truck accident may refer to: Chihuahua monster truck accident; Haaksbergen monster truck accident This page was last edited on 1 ...
The Chihuahua monster truck accident occurred on 5 October 2013 in Chihuahua City, Mexico, when a monster truck crashed into spectators at an air show. [1] [2] Eight people were reported killed, including children, and 79 were injured. [3] Officials and event organizers were blamed for the disaster.
The Haaksbergen monster truck accident happened on 28 September 2014 in Haaksbergen, the Netherlands, when a monster truck crashed into the attending crowd. [1] Three visitors were reported dead, amongst them one child. [2] [3] According to Hans Gerritsen, the mayor of Haaksbergen, twelve people were injured. [3]
The 30-year-old man was shot and killed by his dog after the animal stepped on a loaded rifle in the back seat of his pickup truck, causing the gun to fire through the front passenger seat and hit him in the back. The driver of the truck, who was sitting next to Smith at the time of the accident, was unharmed. [260] [261] [262] Barry Griffiths ...
The sign was knocked over by high winds, and landed on a pickup truck, killing her and injuring her husband, Mark. [467] [468] Mark Fidrych: 13 April 2009: The 54-year-old former Major League Baseball pitcher of the Detroit Tigers died while working underneath his dump truck. His clothes became entangled with the power take-off drive shaft ...
TNT Motorsports was a popular promoter of monster truck races, tractor pulls, and occasionally mud racing in the 1980s. TNT was an acronym for “Trucks n Tractors” founded by the late Billy Joe Miles of Owensboro, Kentucky. Events were shown on Powertrax on ESPN, Trucks and Tractor Power on TNN, and the syndicated Tuff Trax. [1]
A competition monster truck is typically 12 feet (3.7 m) tall, and equipped with 66-inch (1.7 m) off-road tires. Monster trucks developed in the late 1970s and came into the public eye in the early 1980s as side acts at popular motocross, tractor pulling, and mud bogging events, where they
In 1981, Bigfoot made the first monster truck car crush. That same year, Bigfoot was featured in the film Take This Job and Shove It. In 1982, Bigfoot was the first monster truck to crush cars in front of an audience. In March 1983, Bigfoot 1 performed in front of 72,000 fans in the largest single day monster truck event at the Pontiac ...